No movement can afford to be caught in a time warpand exist in a state of suspended animation.- Theodore Bikel

Where as in animation you have to kind of do a seriesof drawings in between to complete the movement.- Gerald Scarfe

Animation is not the art of drawings that move butthe art of movements that are drawn.- Norman McLaren

Animation is about creating the illusion of life.And you can't create it if you don't have one.- Brad Bird

When business executives are making the artistic decisionsand don't understand animation,things can go awry.- Don Bluth

I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go,and it seems like all of animation nowadays is tryingto go where live action is.- Don Bluth

Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptiveand are lighter on dialogue.- Douglas Wood

What's most important in animation is the emotionsand the ideas being portrayed.I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.- Ralph Bakshi

Animation had been done before, but stories were never told.- Marc Davis

My mental faculties remained in suspended animationwhile I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups.This is typical with everyone in the military.- Smedley Butler

Look what Disney's done to their animation department.There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!- Ralph Bakshi

The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machinesto run animation software are gone now.- Dave Rowntree

Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement,but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby,and that the big one was his mother.In that short little film, computer animation wentfrom a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.- John Lasseter

We go through, I think, six different drafts of each script.And then my shooting it is roughly, you know,fifteen percent of the total work that gets done on a show.Then it's all post-production animation after that.- Steve Burns

When an executive walked on our floor,it was at their own risk.As far as what others thought of working for me,I know I was very tough at times, and would storm downthe hall after watching some bad animation from Korea.But overall, I feel we had a good time.- Joe Murray

I love doing the voice of Batman because of the quality of the animation.The music is particularly incredible.Another bonus is getting the opportunity to work withsome very respected actors who do not usually do voice work.- Kevin Conroy

My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films:something with an Indian theme,either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme.I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts ofchances don't always come.- Ravi Shankar

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computeranimated films for your children in the back seat,is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No,it's the storytelling.That's why we put so much importance on story.No amount of great animation will save a bad story.- John Lasseter

In the animation world, people who understand pencilsand paper usually aren't computer people,and the computer people usually aren't the artistic people,so they always stand on opposite sides of the line.- Don Bluth

Animation is different from other parts.Its language is the language of caricature.Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon'sunnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.- Walt Disney

I am an animator.I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory.I am not an executive.I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen.That is the spirit of how I work.- Hayao Miyazaki

Studios have been trying to get rid of the actor fora long time and now they can do it.They got animation.NO more actor, although for now they still have to borrow a voice or two.Anyway, I find it abhorrent.- James Coburn

When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV.It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it,it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time.- Matt Groening

One of the best animated films I've seen come out ofDisney was the Tarzan movie.I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face,but the traditional animation was spectacular.- Ralph Bakshi

And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child.I was too young to really understand what was goingon but one of my favorite pieces of animation now isthat Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that dealsdirectly with that period in time.- Gerald Scarfe

I know pretty well in the broad sense what I'm going to do,because I have to know that when we shoot the live-action,so that it'll synchronize.Then I know pretty well when I get to the animation stage,what that scene requires.- Ray Harryhausen

Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at CartoonNetwork are cartoon fans.I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons,and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw.- Craig McCracken

My work is so unorthodox that from one panel to the next,the drawings are completely different...totally opposed to the way of working in something like animation,where every drawing has to look like the one before.- Sergio Aragones

Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimensionin his animation and when I saw these tapes,I thought, This is it!This is what Walt was waiting for!But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at thetime was even halfway interested in it.- John Lasseter

There are trivial truths and there are great truths.The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.The opposite of a great truth is also true.- Niels Bohr

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.- William Shakespeare

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.- Niels Bohr

FEAR is an acronym in the English languagefor "False Evidence Appearing Real."- Neale Donald Walsch

FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real.- Neale Donald Walsch

Beware of false knowledge;it is more dangerous than ignorance.- George Bernard Shaw